Every credible study on the impact of the minimum wage shows that each and every time it's increased, a certain percentage of jobs are bound to be eliminated. A 1988 Congressional Budget Office study, for instance, projected that a proposed increase at that time would result in the loss of 500,000 jobs.

Minimum-wage jobs are entry-level positions, most often filled by teenagers. By eliminating even a percentage of these positions, we are cutting out the only way inexperienced young people can get their foot in the door of the job market.

Many minimum-wage employees earn much more than their base salary. Waiters and waitresses, for instance, often receive far more money in gratuities than they do in salary. Many minimum-wage servers in fine restaurants to earn up to $40,000 a year.

Each time you increase the Minimum Wage the hardest hit are the poor.